manti te'o is not alone when it comes to falling victim to a hoax of love. thousands fall victim to online scammers all the time and some are doing it for profit. former new york city detective harry hauck is here to tell us what is going on. >> good morning. >> clayton: what is going on? there are all of the scams, especially during valentine's day and people are feeling a little more vulnerable online looking for love and getting scammed. >> you've heard of love at first sight. this is love at first byte, b-y-t-e, i call it. hundreds are going online to look for love. what is happening the scammers are taking advantage of the people. and basically what happens, you might answer an e-mail or a wink from somebody, all right? and you start a conversation with them. all right, they're looking for people that fall in love fast. okay. so once they see like, within a day or two, you're falling in love with them. you know, online. then, they start asking you the questions, they want to know everything about you. you know nothing about them and they know everything